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[xt477]

Win xp pro Tbird 800 256 megs ram 20 igi hard drive.

All ran fine until this weekend now it takes 5 mins. (literally) to boot up. Once laoded to click on anything the hard drive just runs and runs!

No errors found in device manager. Like there is no CPU or hard drive cache.

I'm stumped!

Any suggestions would be appreciated!!

[Raven]

try a scandisk -- possible bad hard drive
try a virus scan -- possible virus

have you loaded any new software lately??

[KonKord]

Mines the same, 128mb T-bird 1ghz with MSI K7t Pro2A.

Bloody thing, i know what it is, XP steals my ram. Little blighter.

Need more RAM!

[xt477]

Thanks will let you know if this fixes it.

How would one go about removing a "Little blighter"? I'll bet I have one too

[weazel]

same issue...new msi k7t266 pro 2...t bird 1200...256 meg cas 2 micron...ran great for half an hour then it took like 4 minutes to open my computer, accessing drives was just as slow and then blam. Lockup. made sure the ide/atapi was set to dma...same thing, no change. downloaded the via 4in1's 4.35 and the ide driver and everything seems fine again.

[format c:]

Running great with a Celery and 512 megs of ram

[Darren Wilson]

XP does this with the IDE driver from the 4-in-1's in 4.34 & lower.

[Garak]

Darren, which version comes as standard with XP?
also is it worth downloading the latest version from <a href="http://www.viahardware.com" target="_blank">Viahardware</a> if my machine is running fine?

[Darren Wilson]

The IDE & chipset drivers in XP are fine if you are using a KT133/A chipset. The newer IDE drivers 'change' the IDE controllers onboard to 'SCSI' (and any devices such as CD-Roms & HDD's are listed as SCSI devices).

I installed the New IDE drivers and found the CD-ROM drives started to lag and HDD performance didn't change, so I went back to the defaults.

[Garak]

Thanks, that all i needed to know sticking with my current drivers..

[pochrist1]

384mb T-bird 1ghz with MSI K7t Pro2A = No Problems.

256mb T-bird 900mhz with Asus A7V133 = No
Problems.

256mb T-bird 900mhz with Asus A7M266 = No
Problems.

Will be installing a Epox EP-8KHA+ 256mb T-bird 900mhz I expect No Problems.

[ReBoot]

Found this little tidbit on the MS site:
Go read this: <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/HWDEV/fastboot/default.htm" target="_blank">http://www.microsoft.com/HWDEV/fastboot/default.htm</a>

[xt477]

Thanks!!

The VIA drivers helped. Still seems sluggish setting next to my WIN98 machine

[Hackmaster]

You gotta disable all unnecessary bloat in Administration Services. Go to <a href="http://www.tweakxp.com" target="_blank">Tweak XP.com</a> for some help. My Win XP flies after some tweakage.